Reconstruction Era

After the 13th Amendment, many freedmen agreed to provide labor on plantations, in exchange for sharing part of the harvested crop. This agreement was called ________.

• labor sharing

• shared harvest

• land sharing

• sharecropping

Free people who had previously been enslaved were known as __________.

• freedmen

• unslaved

• new citizens

• righteous and harmonious fists

What did Radical Republicans want to accomplish?

• punishment for Union military officers and returning to pre-Civil War policies

• punishment for Confederate leaders and protection of the rights of freedmen

• to secede from the Union

• to reinstate the practice of slavery

President Lincoln worked on a plan for Reconstruction before the Civil War was over. Which of the following was part of his plan?

• Ten percent of voters in a state had to take an oath of allegiance.

• Confederate soldiers could never re-join the Union.

• Plantation owners would be sent away to other countries.

• Freedmen would become the owners of former plantations.

What problems did formerly enslaved people face during Reconstruction?

• Black Codes

• lack of education

• sharecropping

• All of the above

Which of the following tried to limit the rights of African Americans in order to help the planter elite hold onto slavery-like conditions?

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• Abraham Lincoln

• Black Codes

• Radical Republicans

What group was known for its use of violence and intimidation against its enemies during Reconstruction?

• Radical Republicans

• freedmen

• sharecroppers

• the Ku Klux Klan

How did sharecropping affect freedmen?

• Sharecropping hurt freedmen because it kept them in a cycle of debt to white landowners.

• Sharecropping helped freedmen because white landowners had to pay them for labor and they were able to save their money.

• Sharecropping helped freedmen because they finally owned their own land.

• Sharecropping did not affect freedmen because only white landowners were sharecroppers.

What agency was created to help former slaves and control abandoned plantation lands?

• The Ku Klux Klan

• The Freedmen's Bureau

• The Red Shirts

• The Sharecroppers' Bureau

In what ways did the Freedmen's Bureau help freedmen?

• The Bureau helped the Ku Klux Klan by guiding freedmen to their "proper place."

• The Bureau helped white plantation owners find freedmen to exploit.

• The Bureau helped create sharecropping and the freedmen's cycle of debt to white landowners.

• The Bureau helped people find jobs and medical care, and supported education.